What Did You Do at Work That Made You Realize ‘Well, I’m Getting Fired, Aren’t I'? - Reddit Podcast

what did you do at work that made you realize well I'm getting fired aren't I I worked for a small computer company doing a couple of million a year in sales one of my tasks was to update price listings and have those changes reflect on our vendors websites I put one less zero on one computer model and ended up costing our company 30,000 in about 1 day someone had noticed the error and brought a crap ton of computers even though there was a c and day process to catch these things after me I knew that

I was getting fired in short I got fired I should say that my boss was actually pretty cool about it but they had to put the blame on someone he told me I could still use them as a reference and that I could label the position as a shortterm contract I'm a police dispatcher and one time at work I was working the desk and Toys for Tots workers came in my boss joked that I should ID them to make sure they weren't thieves we laughed and the gentleman took the 10 trash bags full of toys

and left later that night a man called and asked when he could pick up the toys after telling him that two guys already picked the toys up he confirmed to me that we had most likely been robbed he asked if I'd ided them and I said no he spoke to my boss and my boss then informed me that we would probably be on the news since a police station was robbed which was ironic and he flipped out on me it turns out it was actually an off-duty cop calling to play a crank on me I

worked at an automotive parts manufacturing Factory while going to art college and part of my job was boxing up parts and attaching a tag onto the box with thin wire but for every box I completed one every couple of hours I sculpted a little animal out of the wire with needle-nose pliers I gave the little sculptures Bears rabbits whatever to random employees which they left on their workstation one day as I was making one of the little sculptures I looked over my shoulder to see my supervisor standing directly behind me just watching me with a

clipboard I paused looked her dead in the eye held out the sculpture and said want a bear she fired me on the spot I'm now an animator at Disney I hope that before asking your fateful question you maintained eye contact with your supervisor for at least 5 seconds with an equal amount of time after your question and before she said you're fired because that takes this from funny to like NBC comedy script level good job on moving up and creating different more complicated bears for the Silver Screen I was a legal secretary my boss was

excited about our new big money case with a new Big Money client we'll call them plaintiff Smith boss had three attorneys write a six-page letter to our clients outlining exactly how we're going to cream defendant Jones the letter included possible counterattacks and legal citations and basically our entire strategy meanwhile I was pouring over documents we had received regarding defendant Jones I was asked to mail the strategy letter to our clients plaintiff Smith no biggie just put it in an envelope right I knew he lived out on Maple Drive so I pulled his address from some

papers on my desk and I mailed that sucker out next day I'm pouring over those defendant Jones documents again and my blood ran cold no one had told me that Jones and Smith were next door neighbors the address I'd pulled was Jones OD mailed our entire strategy to the opposing side I immediately called their local post office and used my lunch break to drive there for the next 2 days people at my office knew my mistake I think I wasn't fired immediately because there was some chance I might fix it everyone avoided me or gave

me tight lipped Smiles miraculously the postmaster finally located the letter the carrier had it in her bag on the third day and brought it back to the post office where I was waiting I gave the postmaster a $25 gift card and my tearful gratitude my boss who had avoided me finally broke the silence and said I cannot believe you freaking found that letter it became a crazy story around the office and I was not fired I worked at a movie theater in high school I'm blind in one eye and used to be sensitive about it

I got into an argument with a cooworker at the theater but didn't really think anything of it later on I was going down the hall to get more ice and P him as he was tearing tickets for customers he muttered Cyclops as I passed just loud enough for me to hear so I immediately turned around and punched him in the face in front of his line of customers I never saw managers run so fast hey you know those little toys for kids the little pieces where you shoot off bits of potato well I had the

bright idea to shoot off a potato shooter in the parking lot of my company I fired a few rounds across the road when the maintenance manager came running out screaming at me I then realized I was firing a weapon on company property it doesn't matter that it's potatoes and Right Guard it's still a projectile my fellow supervisors who were watching all disappeared I went back to my desk to await my manager all I got was a I trust this will not happen again email I still work for the company and it occasionally gets brought up

on my work anniversary I was working at cozy a sandwich soup and salad place and had asked to leave early the previous day since my uncle had died I went back to work and was still in a State of Shock and I couldn't check my baggage at the door I had this horrible lady change her order four times during the lunch rush when I had a line out the door I couldn't take it anymore and told her to either order or get the freck out of my line my manager heard me before he could say

anything I took my apron and hat off handed it to him and grabbed my stuff and left I use adum to manage my instant messages while I'm at work work I'm a developer I was speaking to a project manager at a new job I'd been there for maybe a month she was asking me to do some tedious work that was completely unnecessary because they promised it to a client while frustrated I tabbed over to my girlfriend's I am to complain about how frustrated I was that they were making us do all this work for basically

nothing unfortunately I didn't tab over and I sent the IM to the project manager my heart sunk into my stomach I saw the little icon that showed she was typing and was like oh crap how do I cover this up before she responds I reread the comment and noticed I used a lot of pronouns so when she responded she thought I was talking to her about the client dear Lord I thought I'd ruined my awesome new job right after it started in high school I worked at an AM radio station in my small town on

Sunday mornings I was the only person there from 6:00 a.m. to noon it was mostly reading the weather and playing pre taped programs at one point I play a live broadcast of a Catholic mass going on during that time I would crawl into a ball in the break room and doze off hung over from the night before one Sunday I woke up to godamn it Tim you can't sleep on the job and I sit up and see the boss who runs the station standing over me with a frown but I wasn't sleeping I say just

when I think he might buy it he says you have an alarm clock next to you uh yeah I brought an alarm clock that I'd set so I didn't over sleep hard to explain that one I thought I was screwed but somehow he didn't fire me I worked there for another month and then I left for college I work in a furniture store mainly in the warehouse we sell expensive crap like the cheapest lamp you'll find is a 100 bucks and that's because it's damaged slightly we had received a shipment of a very expensive set

all for a model home that we were staging I had a china cabinet still boxed on our forklift it was set on a pallet upright on it side so that was very tall and not very wide I was bringing it into the warehouse and being super careful well we have a sunken manhole right in front of the warehouse garage floor the front right wheel of the forklift went right into the dip and I watched that 350 lb box of wood and glass Teeter Rock and fall flat on the ground it made a solid thunk and

I knew it was all over it turned out to not have a sad ending the lady in charge of Damages knew it was an accident and ordered a new right away no worries or anything but when we received the new piece my manager wouldn't let me near it look I know that you knew about the danger of the manhole and all but surely it's mostly on your boss for knowing that this problem was an ongoing thing and not taking steps to fix it because they sure as all heck would have had trouble firing you for

that kind of incident I'm a medical equipment repair technician one night I was working on an exam light that was hanging from the ceiling in an operating room I had had a bit of it apart and was inspecting the connection between the big light head and the arm that it was suspended from when a clip popped out the light head dropped to the floor the arm is spring-loaded and it shot up and shattered the ceiling and five or six lights showering the operating table anesthesia cart and myself in ceiling tile plastic and glass at first

I was in shock and what just happened didn't register in my brain I reached down to pick up the lights head which is about 3 in across and grabbed the arm with my other hand while trying to put them back together I realized I'm coating everything in blood the operation staff came running in and just saw me surrounded by destruction and covered in my own blood fortunately the charge nurse had a sense of humor I worked at a ticket booth for a water park in high school as a summer job it was 2010 and so

a lot of the people I was working with were adults with families and whatnot but we were all very close because it's retail and thus gives you all a common enemy anyway with school starting back up again I'd put in my 2 weeks notice it was a summer job so I actually had to give my end date on the first day but we still had to submit a notice our company was extremely paranoid about cash we didn't have any money or cards on us at any time while working and you couldn't leave your work area

at all once you were given money unless you checked your till back into your supervisor including every bathroom break there were cameras all over the booth and you had to explicitly count any money on the table separated so that it would show up on camera all money was counted randomly throughout your shift twice a day and then again at the end if you had a variance of over 20 bucks it was considered a class 3 violation and you were immediately fired tickets for the water park were about 60 bucks a person so one screw up

was essentially all you got in ticketing anyway a woman I was working with probably about 45 was checking her till in at the same time as me we talked a lot during downtime I knew she had three kids and was recently divorced she kept full custody of the kids but she was essentially a housewife before that her husband was very well off and though with some nice support payments she could keep afloat she had to take the job to be able to give her kids nice things she was frustrated at her husband always getting to

be the hero who would come in to take them on vacation and didn't have to discipline them and who had the money to buy them new game systems and the clothes that her daughter wanted and whatnot she was stressed and low on sleep all the time she was working other jobs too anyway we were tilling out and then I realized she's taking a long time we put our money through a scanner and there's only one so I was waiting for her to finish and I realized she's running everything through multiple times so I asked what's

going on and I realize her eyes are getting really watery and she Whispers that she's off by 36 bucks now we really can't make a fuss because while the cameras don't do audio there are still supervisors around so I in a split-second decision shuffled some paperwork around and slipped the money to her till and told her to just try again I figured that I was signing off my own death certificate I got fired on the spot when they checked me out after they took my gate keys and my ID card a security officer was called

and he escorted me to the break room to get my stuff and then to my car where they took my parking pass and drove behind me in their golf cart until I was out of the gates I wasn't allowed to see anyone or say goodbye so there was no real closure with me and that woman she did call me a couple of days later to say thank you and how much it meant and whatnot and invited me over for dinner with her family but I was getting ready to go back to school for a couple

of days and said no thanks you can submit your own stories to be featured here on the channel the story submission link is in the description below and if you want to listen to some viby music in the background check out easy mode also linked below and subscribe worked at Taco Bell as a background people generally consider me very mild tempered and kind one night was particularly stressful it wasn't unusual for us to kind of beat on the touch screens a bit but I got mad and I punched one mind you it wasn't a full-blown

oh my God punch it was more like if your buddy made fun of you and you kind of annoyingly punched his shoulder the screen shattered and then the touchs screen started ringing up hundreds of coincidentally fruit punches the girl working next to me saw the screen shatter and saw my hand bleeding and looked at me like she thought I just started a rampage and was about to go go after her I got fired three times that night each manager the store the district and Regional fired me yelled at me then calmed down and said that

since I'd been a good worker they'd let me stay if I paid for it I paid for it it took a couple of paychecks to replace the touchcreen computer in 2002 I was working for a faith-based radio station I was supposed to hook up the ISDN for a live broadcast I shut my eyes just for a minute and woke up half an hour into the hourong broadcast I got the ISDN to connect but no audio was playing I yelled some things like eggplant sucker God damn it and then I figured out that the ISDN was

hooked up to an AB switch the BS side was the microphone in front of my face a couple of old ladies called in after the broadcast saying I didn't hear the church for a half hour and then I heard a man's voice I think it was you and then it came on oh don't worry ma'am it won't be a problem going forward I assure you I told them switched my medication and passed out which is sort of true that and I was up all night drinking in a far away town and didn't get any sleep

the night before I left a voicemail for my boss and never went back or worked in a radio again it just wasn't for me in short I said Wang sucker on live Christian radio working as an engineer I quit and I regret nothing honestly the narrator doesn't think they would have fired you or at least they shouldn't have given that you hear about male pastors getting away with mega scan handles what's an accidental exclamation of member sucking between friends but in all seriousness I don't think they would have depending on the faith these people can

actually be quite forgiving threw a staple gun onto the counter it bounced up and smashed a hole through the monitor at my workstation I was fired the next day I was young and I had just got my full-time job at an awesome company it was a small Doom startup and those of us in customer support which was about five people had a running gag with the nooc team which was about five people we called them the nooc bastards and they called us Pool Boys even though I was the first female on the customer support team

on a dare from my supervisor Reed not my real manager I went into the company's Alias list and set up nooc bastards company.com to go to the nooc Alias and poboys company.com to go to us the system admin saw the file change and he saw who changed it third day of work I got a Stern talking to I went white as I saw my dream job slipping away he saw how freaked out I was getting and said calm down you're not going to get fired for this or anything before proceeding to go further he then

called in my supervisor and gave him a real Stern talking to as well I ended up becoming friends with that system admin and spent six wild years at that company oh my dad has a great one he was a bus boy at a restaurant and it was his first day on the job the place was packed and he was rushing back with a ton of dishes somehow the tray to carry them fell and all of the dishes fell to the floor with a loud crash everyone looked over at my dad my dad saw that there

was one lone dish intact picked it up held it out at arms length then dropped it it broke everyone in the restaurant applauded and he was then fired I was once chatting with a higher up manager about how a lot of people were away on the holidays she said she might leave early but I was stuck pulling a couple of extra hours with all of the people out getting their stuff handled as she was walking away what I wanted to say was yep don't want to have anyone working harder at their job than they have

to this time of year or something like that but what came out of my mouth was yep don't want to have to make you do your job she was already around the corner by the time I got that far so my brain made me stop talking then I realized what I had just said but it was too late she was already gone I heard about it quite a bit from my direct Superior later but nothing came of it I worked phone technical support in the late '90s we had an instant messenger program but weren't supposed

to use it only the managers contacted you on that so A manager starts a large group conversation on a Friday then immediately drops off we continue chatting and having fun for a few minutes but most of us drop out about 10 of us kept going after some time someone invites a few of our Canadian counter parts to the conversation we're joking back and forth about who has the better beer how their weather is sunny as was rainy that day among other things in the spirit of fun I post the lyrics to the Royal Canadian Kilted

yakman song from Ren and Stimpy it seems to be no big deal conversation dies out within about 15 minutes and we eventually turn it off I then get a dreaded manager instant message asking my name and group and group manager uh-oh within a few minutes I'm called in by my manager and he takes me to another manager who runs the Canadian group I was reported as making offensive and harassing comments my manager asks me very solemnly what did you say I know I'm so fired at this point so I just say uh I quoted the

lyrics to The Ren and Stimpy Royal Canadian Kilted yakman song he snorts and almost does a spit take laughing and then quickly recovers and says okay don't do it again instant messenger is only to be used for work purposes the other manager just kind of rolls her eyes tells me the Canadian team doesn't have a sense of humor and reiterates not doing it again and that was it I got away with a slap on the wrist I just started work in the field as a natural gas technician I'm normally a model employee at every job

I have but this one started off a little shaky my first day while making a k turn I backed the company truck into a ditch and bottomed it out my bosses had to drive out 45 minutes from the office to pull me out they were obviously annoyed but for some reason they decided to keep me aboard strike one the second day at my last house of the day I managed to lock my keys in the truck on duty boss had to leave home drive all the way to the office and get the spare keys and

come unlock my door strike two third day no incident fourth day at my first house of the day while bleeding the gas line inside the house the gas ignites totally burns out the AC unit this is it I'm fired there's no way I keep my job after this boss comes to the house looks at it looks at me and said man you screwed up the next day I was told to stay home and thus concluded the worst first week on the job I've ever heard of the best part somehow I didn't lose my job but

instead went on to be the best tech they had I worked there for over a year before moving on to do better things I worked as a media buyer and on my third day on the job my boss asked me to find some information and update the huge spreadsheet he was working on for the client's annual plan as I was about to update it he opened the file to finish a few things and asks me to wait now I'm the new girl wanting to show service I decide to open a copy of the spreadsheet and

update it there so when he finishes I know where it goes he finishes lets me know I can open the file I just save the one that I've updated on top of his work I basically made him lose an entire day of work the year- round spreadsheet was ready and the one I had was a rough drawer I really thought he was going to throw his monitor on my head he changed colors and had to leave the office in order not to curse me out I apologized the next day and so did he and we

agreed to always save versions from that day forward when you subscribe make sure to hit the Bell to turn on notifications put the playlist on in the background to finish listening to all the stories or if you want some viby music to put on in the background check out easy mode if you like am I the genius give am I the jerk a shot everything Linked In the description